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Thursday, 15 March 2012

Smeared & Smudged Member Blog Hop

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Welcome to the March Member Blog Hop at Smeared & Smudged. The theme this month is "Mixed-Media Mash Up". I decided to alter a coffin. The theme for my coffin is from "Edgar Allen Poe's" - "Premature Burial". I first painted the coffin with brown paint (2 coats). I then made some templates for the inside of the coffin. I took strips of white cotton material and using the background mesh stamp from Smeared Ink's Quoth the Raven, I stamped all over the material, I then used this to cover the templates and then glued them into place inside the coffin. I made a small pillow from the same material. The hand rails and pole holding the bell were made from bamboo skewers cut to size and coloured with a gold promarker. I made the ends of the handrails smaller with a craft knive and then stuck on gold beads. These were glued onto the coffin using a glue gun. The bell was attached with string. I then placed my man into the coffin sitting up and tied the other end of the string to his hand. The coffin lid was glued open using the glue gun. I had a lot of fun making this and hope you like it. The blog hop list is below the photo have fun and don't forget to leave a comment on the participants work.

Jane I love this Idea for the premature burial for QTR - was what I was going to attempt, lol. Great way of altering a "plain coffin". Great, realistic looking coffin furniture with the skewers. Thank you for sharing this at Smudgy Antics this week as well Hxx

wow that totally rocks. I have never seen anyone go as far as putting the outside rails on. that's great looking and so neat. Could you imagine being back in the day and having to pull that bell. Or worse not having one to pull. freaky bad.